Fire-proof lathing



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L. 8: W. H. LANE.

FIRE PROOF LATEING.

Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

lhsrrnn STATES PATENT Orricn.

LOUIS LANE AND .VILLIAM H. LANE, OF NEVVABK, OHIO.

Fl FEE-PROOF LATHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,643, dated December1, 1885.

Application filed June 12, 1885. Serial No. 168,458.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS LANE and WILL- 1AM H. LANE, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Newark, in the county of Licking and State ofOhio, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Proof Lathing, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists in the combination of strips of sheet metal, withan interlacing of wires so arranged as to form a continuous sheet orroll. The strips may be crimped or corrugated, and may be perforated.These strips are placed at intervals sufficient to allow the mortar topass between them and form the clinch on the back. The strips are madenarrow, thus afiording frequent and perfect support for the mortar. Thestrips are held firmly in position by the wires being twisted togetherbetween the strips,which also serves to make the strips work together,so that they are more rigid, and also prevents sagging between supportson partitions. YVe thus form a sheet of rigid metal lathing, which canbe more rapidly applied than the separate strips, and which affords abetter clinch for the plaster, as the strips can be made narrower.

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In the drawings. Figure 1 isa cross section, Fig. 2 is a perspective,and Fig. 3 a view in detail, of my invention.

A is the corrugated strip of sheet metal interlaced by the wires B B,which are twisted, as shown at D. These wires occur at intervals, asshown. The lathing is attached by securing it to the furring with theclip E, which serves to take up any slack in the Wires, thus stretchingthem tightly. Any other suitable device may be used instead of E. In theother figures the some parts are indicated by the same letters as inFig. 1.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure Letters Patcut for, is-

A sheet of metallic lathing composed of strips of sheet metal woventogether by wire warp strands, which are twisted together where theycross, substantially as before set forth.

LOUIS LANE. WILLIAM H. LANE.

